Leadership Development Plan: Developing Skills for Archer Capital

This report details a leadership development plan aimed at improving communication and analytical skills to achieve a career goal of becoming a hedge fund manager at Archer Capital within five years. The plan emphasizes enhancing communication skills for better team leadership and participation in senior meetings, as well as improving analytical abilities for data mining and portfolio management. The report explores transformational leadership theories, highlighting the importance of communication and analytical skills in inspiring and supporting team members. It also evaluates current leadership development trends, focusing on the need for strong communication and critical thinking skills in modern leadership roles. The plan involves progressing through roles such as hedge fund analyst and senior hedge fund analyst to gain practical experience and sharpen necessary skills, with performance appraisals and supervisor evaluations used to assess progress.

Running head: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Leadership Development Plan
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author note

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Executive Summary
The primary purpose of this report is to discuss about my future leadership development goal
and how my leadership plan aims at fulfilling these goals. It elucidates on the emerging
theoretical views in relation to leadership and how these can help in achieving my leadership
development goal. It also evaluates the current development trend and makes
recommendations pertaining to future leadership development goal.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Future Leadership Goal in relation to development plan...........................................................3
Theoretical Views of Leadership and Industry Trends on Leadership......................................4
Evaluation of Current Leadership Development Trend.............................................................6
Recommendations......................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References:...............................................................................................................................10
Appendices:..............................................................................................................................12
Appendix A..........................................................................................................................12
Appendix B:.........................................................................................................................13
Appendix C:.........................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Leadership refers to the art of motivating people so that they can reach common goal.
A leader directs his workers along with colleagues by taking recourse to a strategy that can
help in meeting the needs of the company. Leadership Development Plan can act as an
invaluable tool that can provide an individual with guidance in his professional path and help
him in achieving career satisfaction (Schnackenberg and Tomlinson 2016). The leadership
development plan can help an individual in realizing interesting opportunities and rise over
the challenges that can help an individual in having an impactful career. A hedge fund
manager should be able to maintain the financial models, perform the valuation techniques,
mine data, generate idea and help in the process of portfolio management. The needs for the
profession of hedge fund manager are that the individual should be able to analyse the
financial market along with institutional investor. He should possess the skill of writing the
diligence report in a timely manner. The strengths of my personality lie in the fact that I have
deep knowledge pertaining to hedge fund, I am responsible and I possess superior skills in
relation to writing that can come of great use in the profession of hedge fund manager. The
areas where I have to improve upon are my communication skills and the ability of analysing
that can act as a hindrance in relation to my professional career (Ellinger and Gregory
2018).This report discusses the future leadership goals and how the development plan can
help me in reaching the goals. It discusses about theoretical views in relation to leadership
and the current leadership development trend. It also states the recommendations in
relationship to future leadership development opportunities.
Future Leadership Goal in relation to development plan
My future leadership goal is to improve on my communication and analytical skills
that can come to be of great use in the profession of hedge fund manager that I want to

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accomplish within a time frame of 5 years in Archer Capital. The communication skill will be
able to help me in the making of on-site calls to that of the investment managers. It will be
able to help me in leading the investment team that can help in improving the sector
performance. This skill will enable me to actively participate in the senior team meeting that
can help me in accomplishing outcome in the role of hedge fund manager. It can help me in
keeping the people under me updated regarding the stocks that can have an impact on that of
the investment fund (Carnall 2018). Another weakness in my character is in relation to my
analytic ability and this can come to be of great use in the profession of hedge fund manager.
The analytical ability can help me in the aspect of data mining along with generation of idea
that are of great importance for the position of hedge fund manager. It can help in the process
of portfolio management process that is of central importance in the profession of portfolio
manager.
I think that the process of leadership development can take place with the help of my
career progression. I will like to see myself in the position of hedge fund analyst within a
span of 2 years in my organisation called Archer Capital. The primary job of hedge fund
analyst is to determine the best method that can help the hedge fund in making profit by
taking recourse to investments. Spending a lot of time on investigating the investment
opportunity can help me in sharpening my analytical skills that is of primary importance for
becoming successful in the professional position of Hedge fund manager. A hedge fund
analyst has to review the business data along with profit reports that can help in improving
my analytical skills. The hedge fund analyst has to recommend the investment options that
can help me in reaching my professional goal in life (Rahim 2017). The communication skills
can also be sharpened in the event of the hedge fund analyst communicating to the portfolio
manager important facts relating to the investments. In the role of senior hedge fund analyst
in Archer Capital, I have to assist the members of hedge fund research team in the

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preparation of materials that can greatly help me in evolving as a successful hedge fund
manager at the later stage of my professional life. The senior hedge fund analyst has to
support investment managers in the process of screening and researching of external
investment manager which can sharpen my communication skills that is a domain that needs
to be developed (Ward 2016).
Theoretical Views of Leadership and Industry Trends on Leadership
The emerging leadership theories focus on the fact that employees should have more
voice pertaining to the solving of problems. The new leadership focuses on the aspect of
fostering shared leadership kind of work culture in an organization. Transformational
leadership is indicative of a leadership theory in which the leader works along with the teams
so that they can identify the needed change and create vision that can help in guiding change
by taking recourse to inspiration. The leaders execute the change along with committed
members of the group. The emerging form of transformational leadership can help in
enhancing motivation, morale along with job performance of followers by the utilisation of
various kinds of mechanisms (Cao et al., 2016). The transformational leader acts as a role
model for the followers that can help in inspiring them and raise interest of the subordinates
towards the project. A transformational leader can help in inspiring positive changes for the
followers with the help of good communication skills. I think that it is important to improve
my communication skills that can help me in evolving as a successful transformational
leader. Good communication skills can help me in helping other members of group so that
they can succeed. A transformational leader can inspire the followers by changing
expectation, perception along with motivation that can help the leader and his subordinates in
working towards a common goal (Lim, Sensoy and Weisbach 2016). A transformational
leader by taking recourse to new manner of doing things can encourage the aspect of

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creativity among the followers. A transformational leader can offer support to the
subordinates with the help of open communication that can make the followers feel free for
sharing their ideas. I shall try to integrate diversity in all the processes of Archer Capital with
the help of my communication techniques. Diversity can help in the process of identification
and developing of talent that can come to be of great use for the profile of hedge fund
manager in Archer Capital (Cao and Velthuis 2017). It will help me in working with diverse
people that can increase my professional proficiency.
A transformational leader should have analytical skills that can help them in
challenging the status quo. A transformation al leader should have analytical ability that can
help him in personalizing the management style that can help a leader in adapting to different
needs in relation to his team. A leader has to delegate the work on the basis of talent and they
have to challenge comfort zone of the people who are working under him. A transformational
leader has to support the career development of the people working under him and he should
have analytical ability that can help him in challenging assumptions regarding what can be
achieved and what cannot be achieved ten (ten Brinke, Kish and Keltner 2018). The hedge
fund manager would be able to attend the industry conferences and attend the management
meeting and emerge successful in the event of having analytical skills. The hedge fund
manager has to take part in field research and he would evolve as a successful manager in the
event of being successful in analysing the state of events. The hedge fund manager would be
able to develop the proprietary tools pertaining to research and create the sector surveys in
the proper manner in the event of developing analytical skills (Kacperczyk, Nieuwerburgh
and Veldkamp 2014).

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Evaluation of Current Leadership Development Trend
Good communication skill is imperative for a manger that can help him in achieving
success in his professional domain. An effective manager should be able to persuade,
associate and provide support to the team with the help of his superior communication skill.
The current leadership development trend lays great amount of emphasis on the aspect of
inspiring the team mates so that they can work hard that can help them in realizing the
organizational goal. A transformational leader can convince other people with the help of his
unique personality and he can make his followers follow his goals. A hedge fund manager
should act like a transformational leader as he has to make crucial decisions within the stock
market that is rapidly changing (Cao et al. 2017). My leadership develop plan will help me in
improving my communication skill that can help me in articulating the performance of my
fund to the shareholders. A leader has to build accountability within the system by taking the
responsibility for the creation of a diverse work environment (Chen et al. 2018). The
professional positions of hedge fund analyst along with senior hedge fund analyst in Archer
Capital will be able to teach me regarding how to identify relevant dimensions in relation to
diversity in the organization.
A leader in the modern age should have analytic skills that will be able to help him in
the aspect of critical thinking that is of vital importance in the present age. A hedge fund
manager has to do a lot of research and make scenario analysis and hence the career roles of
hedge fund analyst along with senior hedge analyst will be able to sharpen his skill set that
can successfully help him in performing better in the position of hedge fund manager that he
will be able to attain after a period of 5 years (Anthony et al. 2014). A hedge fund manager
has to look at trajectories and make connection pertaining to the events that can have an
effect on his market activities. The leadership development plan will be able to help me in
becoming more decisive pertaining to the investment recommendation. A hedge fund

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manager has to do the work autonomously and the analyzing ability will help him in the
identification of new ideas that can provide one with edge in relation to investing (Krell
2015).
The evaluation pertaining to my professional position of hedge fund analyst can be
carried out with the help of performance appraisal along with the compiling of supervisor
evaluation. Performance appraisal will be able to help me in judging the effectiveness of my
performance as hedge fund analyst. With the help of supervisor evaluation, the superior can
assess the production of the employee. The evaluation of the position of senior hedge fund
analyst can be done with the help of self appraisal that can help the employee in looking at
their own strength and that of weakness. The feedback from the peer can also act as a useful
measure that can help in ascertaining the dedication that an individual has towards his job.
Getting the appraisal from the subordinates can help me in understanding my success in the
position of hedge fund manager that can judge my ability of leading within Archer Capital.
Recommendations
Globalization will bring about revolutionary changes pertaining to world financial
market. The regulatory structure in a large number of industrial countries has undergone
evolution in isolation from that of the external development. A hedge fund career mentor will
be able to help me in my career development in Archer Capital and the experience of the
mentor can help in throwing open a gamut of opportunities that will help me in flourishing in
the competitive age of globalisation. It can act like a networking tool that can immensely help
me in improving my abilities that can be of great worth for my professional position. The
hedge fund manager will be able to introduce me to important people that can help me to
survive within the global environment.

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Conclusion
The leadership development plan can improve my communication along with
analytical skills that can be useful for my professional position of hedge fund manager that I
want to achieve within a time frame of 5 years. The communication skill can facilitate the
making of calls to investment managers. It can help me in the aspect of leading my
investment team. The position of hedge fund analyst will be able to improve the analytical
skills that are core for the profile of that of hedge fund manager. The analyzing skills will
help me in recommendation of investment options. A hedge fund manager has to act like a
transformational leader so that other people will be willing to follow him. Hedge fund
manager should act like a transformational leader that can inspire other people. A hedge fund
manager should be able to personalize the management style that can help him in dealing
with diverse kind of people. A hedge fund mentor can help me in further developing my
career and sharpening my skills in the age of globalisation.

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